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The wooden-shoe "industry" was carried on by the Taberaux family. S. Taberaux and his sons, J. B. and Jelang-who had come from Belgium, lived several year in Floyd County, Ga., and moved to Pickens shortly before the Civil War. When the war forced the price of leather shoes cut of ordinary reach, neighbors of the family found a substitute in the wooden shoes always worn-and made-by the Taberaux, who thereupon found quite profitable, for a while, the trade they had learned in the old country.
Source : Tate, Luke E. : History of Pickens County; Atlanta, Ga.: Press of W.W. Brown Pub. Co., c1935, 320 pgs.
